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The situation in the middle east has escalated quite a bit in the past day or two. Israel has decided to invade southern Lebanon after some Hezbollah rocket strikes. Iran finally fired some missiles at Israel after vowing revenge for some assassinations on Hamas and Hezbollah leaders by Israel. The US has seemed to strike a more hawkish tone in rhetoric recently.
I know so many people my parents’ age (the lower threshold seems to be about 60ish) who spend so much of their lives just being so unnecessarily and superficially judgemental about other people who don’t do things the way they do things, dress differently, or have different interests or lifestyle choices that they find strange. And I’m not just talking about the classic curmudgeonly old people stuff like being LGBT or having tattoos/piercings. Just simple things like, I dunno, having a perfectly normal hobby that they don’t think they’d enjoy doing personally and so anyone who *does* partake in that hobby is automatically a weird, disgusting person.
I really don’t get it. Aren’t you supposed to get *less* judgemental about these things over time as you become more mature and you learn to accept people’s differences and realise that these kinds of things really don’t matter if they don’t affect you in any way?
Is this just an age thing or a generational thing? I don’t want to turn out like this when I’m 60. Especially since my parents (and especially my mum) are particularly bad examples of this.
Inktober day 1 prompt was [Backpack](https://www.deviantart.com/tereyaglikedi/art/Inktober-2024-Day-1-Backpack-1105050467). Mine isn’t exactly a backpack, but an “Aufhocker” (the description is in the picture link). As orangebikini said, the prompts don’t need to be taken too literally, I guess, even if they’re a bit samey.
I went to the consulate yesterday to get my passport. After waiting in the rain for a bit (they didn’t have an indoor waiting room for people who want to pick up documents) I entered a small, dark, dirty room (more like a booth, really). There was a glass screen that was quite dark and super disgustingly dirty with fingerprints and brow-prints. The paint on the walls and furniture was peeling off. I slid in my id etc below the glass screen, and the guy (I couldn’t hear his voice much, but he was a guy. I think he was wearing a white shirt) gave me my stuff after asking for a signature.
It felt a bit dystopian, really. Why not just take a glass cleaner and at least give your workplace a wipe?
Anyhow, I didn’t stay in for long. It was weird.
Last workday for this week. I’ll probably have to work a bit tomorrow, too, but I am off afterwards for a long weekend.
Some other lab workers and I were called nerds. Dunno what to say.